Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

Mark Twain

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Mark Twain

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Mark Twain

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

Mark Twain

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.

The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

Marilyn Monroe

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

Mary MacLane

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

Joseph Joubert

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

King Edward VIII

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Moliere

Better to be married than dead!

Moliere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Moliere

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Moliere

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

Milton Berle

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

Milton Berle

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

Nancy Mitford

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Keith Richards

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Chris Stapleton

It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

They had talked about it, and I told her to just kind of wait and just make sure because marriage is such a big step.

There was no right to same-sex marriage before Measure 36, and there is no right to same-sex marriage after Measure 36,

It's been an interesting 35 years. I mean, this is a marriage, and it's the most successful one I've ever had.

Nancy O'Dell

You said you were never going to get married.

Johnny Carson

If variety if the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam

Alyssa Milano

I'm not getting married, ... Our relationship is so new we don't even really know what it is yet.

Sandra Lee

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

Robert Blake

I'm not talking about the case, ... I'm talking about my marriage to Sondra, long before the case.

What was your understanding about whether he was married?

A marriage is supposed to be about the couple, and the wedding represents the marriage. If the woman is doing all the work, it segregates it and makes it like it's her day and not our day.

A marriage is a gift. It should be opened up and enjoyed.